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                        for the Public Sector</span></big><a
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                                              <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      href="http://www.public-software.in"
                      target="_blank">www.public-software.in</a></span></p>
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                rgb(102, 153, 51);">Public Software News</big><span
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                  style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51);">January 2011</span><span
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                      style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51);"><a
                        moz-do-not-send="true" name="ISSUE"></a>IN THIS
                      ISSUE</span></span></font></p>
              <font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span
                    style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51);"></span></span><br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="#WITHIN_THE_GOVERNMENT">Within
the



                  Government</a> <br>
              </font><font size="-1"><span style="font-weight: normal;">•
                </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#National_Policy"><font
                    style="font-weight: normal;">National Policy on Open
                    Standards in e-governance</font></a> <br>
                <span style="font-weight: normal;">• </span><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#Assam"><span
                    style="font-weight: normal;">Assam state and public
                    software</span></a><br>
                <br>
                <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="#WITHIN_OTHER_PUBLIC_INSTITUTIONS">Within other
                  public institutions</a> <br>
              </font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1">• <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#UNESCO"><font>UNESCO's
                    work for public software</font></a></font><font
                size="-1"><br>
              </font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1">• </font><font
                size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="#Competition_Commission_of_India"><font
                    style="font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"><span
                      style="font-weight: normal;">Competition
                      Commission of India</span></font><font
                    style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family:
                      sans-serif;"> </span></font><font
                    style="font-weight: normal;"><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;">and Microsoft
                      Corp</span></font></a> <br>
              </font>
              <p style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="-1"><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="#EDUCATION">Education</a><br>
                </font> <font size="-1"> <span style="font-weight:
                    normal;">• </span><a style="font-weight: normal;"
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="#Completion"><font>State
Master



                      Trainers on public education software tools</font></a><br
                    style="font-weight: normal;">
                </font><font size="-1"><span style="font-weight:
                    normal;">• </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="#Education_institutions"><font
                      style="font-weight: normal;">Education
                      institutions role in digital inclusion</font></a></font><font
                  size="-1"><a style="font-weight: normal;"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="PS_January%202011.html#CeTIT"><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;"></span></a></font></p>
              <font size="-1"><a style="font-weight: normal;"
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#CeTIT"><span
                    style="font-family: sans-serif;"></span></a></font></td>
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              <p style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="-1"><a
                    style="font-weight: normal;" moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="PS_January%202011.html#CeTIT"><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;"></span></a></font></p>
              <br>
              <p style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="-1"><br>
                </font></p>
              <p style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="-1"><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="#WORKSHOPS">Workshops</a><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="#WORKSHOPS"> and
                    Conferences</a><br>
                </font><font size="-1"> <span style="font-weight:
                    normal;">• </span></font><font size="-1"><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" href="#KMKN"><span
                      style="font-weight: normal;">Knowledge Management
                      and Knowledge Networking Workshop</span></a><br>
                </font> <font size="-1">• <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="#Declaration"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          style="font-weight: normal;"><font>Declaration
                            on ICTs in Education</font></span></span></span></a><br>
                </font> <font size="-1">• <a style="font-weight:
                    normal;" moz-do-not-send="true" href="#CeTIT"><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;">CeTIT 2010</span></a></font></p>
              <font size="-1"> <br>
              </font> <font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="#INTERNATIONAL">International</a><br>
              </font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1">• <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#Russia"><font>Russia
                    uses Microsoft to suppress dissent</font></a></font><font
                size="-1"><br style="font-weight: normal;">
              </font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1">• <a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#Open"><font>Public
                    software for Russian Government</font></a></font><font
                size="-1"><br>
              </font><font style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1"> </font><font
                style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1">• </font><font
                style="font-weight: normal;" size="-1"><a
                  moz-do-not-send="true" href="#Defining">Defining open
                  source hardware</a></font><font size="-1"><br>
              </font>
              <p><font size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="PS_January%202011.html#FOSS"><span
                      style="font-weight: normal;"></span></a></font></p>
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              background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); width: 394px;"
              colspan="2"> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><span
                style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span>
              <div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color:
                  rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span><span style="color: rgb(255,
                  102, 0);"></span>
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                  <p><big style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51);"><span
                        style="font-weight: bold;"><small><a
                            moz-do-not-send="true"
                            name="WITHIN_THE_GOVERNMENT"></a><font
                            size="-1">WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT</font></small></span></big></p>
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                <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> </span>
                <div style="text-align: justify;">
                  <p><big><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></big>
                  </p>
                  <p style="font-family: sans-serif;" align="justify"><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                            style="background-color: transparent;
                            background-image: none; background-repeat:
                            repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                            background-position: 0% 50%;
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                            -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
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                              name="National_Policy"></a>National Policy
                            on Open Standards in e-governance - </span></b></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="font-weight: normal;"><span
                            style="background-color: transparent;
                            background-image: none; background-repeat:
                            repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                            background-position: 0% 50%;
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                            -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                            -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                            -moz-background-inline-policy:
                            -moz-initial;">India is one of the first
                            countries in the world to adopt <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://egovstandards.gov.in/approved-standards/egscontent.2010-11-12.9124322046/at_download/file">open
standards



                              in e-governance</a>. As part of this
                            policy, the government has <a
                              moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://egovstandards.gov.in/public-review/egscontent.2010-12-28.3570952294/base_view">notified</a>
                            the specific open standards for each format
                            including odf (Open document format) and
                            ogg. Read more here (</span></span></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/article907442.ece"
                        target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
                              style="font-weight: normal;"><span
                                style="background-color: transparent;
                                background-image: none;
                                background-repeat: repeat;
                                background-attachment: scroll;
                                background-position: 0% 50%;
                                -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                                -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                                -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                                -moz-background-inline-policy:
                                -moz-initial;">The Hindu</span></span></i></span></a></font><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="font-style: normal;"><span
                            style="font-weight: normal;"><span
                              style="background-color: transparent;
                              background-image: none; background-repeat:
                              repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                              background-position: 0% 50%;
                              -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                              -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-inline-policy:
                              -moz-initial;">, 26 November 2010).</span></span></span></span></font></p>
                  <p style="font-family: sans-serif; width: 818px;"
                    align="justify"><font size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                            style="background-color: transparent;
                            background-image: none; background-repeat:
                            repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
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                            -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                            -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
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                            -moz-background-inline-policy:
                            -moz-initial;"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                              name="Assam"></a>Assam</span></b></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
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                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
                          promotes public software and distributes more
                          than 19,000 laptops to high school students
                          during 2010. </span></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=CAP/2010/12/24/21/Img/Ad0210010.png"
                        target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                            style="background-color: transparent;
                            background-image: none; background-repeat:
                            repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                            background-position: 0% 50%;
                            -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                            -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                            -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                            -moz-background-inline-policy:
                            -moz-initial;">Read more</span></span></a></font><font
                      size="3"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><font
                            size="-1">.</font> </span></span></font></p>
                </div>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;
                  text-decoration: none;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"><span
                    style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><font style="color:
                      rgb(102, 153, 51);" size="-1"><span
                        style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></span></p>
                <br>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;
                  text-decoration: none;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"><span
                    style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><font style="color:
                      rgb(102, 153, 51);" size="-1"><span
                        style="font-weight: bold;"></span></font></span><span
                    style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><font style="color:
                      rgb(102, 153, 51);" size="-1"><span
                        style="font-weight: bold;"><a
                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                          name="WITHIN_OTHER_PUBLIC_INSTITUTIONS"></a>WITHIN
OTHER



                        PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS<br>
                      </span></font></span> </p>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: sans-serif;"
                  align="justify"><font size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" name="UNESCO"></a>UNESCO



                          to support implementation of public
                          educational software - </span></b></span></font><font
                    size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                        style="background-color: transparent;
                        background-image: none; background-repeat:
                        repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Sri.
A.



                        Parsuramen, Director of </span></span></font><font
                    size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">UNESCO</span></b></span></font><font
                    size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                        style="background-color: transparent;
                        background-image: none; background-repeat:
                        repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">,
                        India, talks about promoting the use and
                        development of public educational software tools
                        for teacher training and teaching purposes, with
                        the state governments. </span></span><a
                      moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.deccanherald.com/content/85421/unesco-like-partner-india-rte.html"
                      target="_blank"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Read



                          more</span></span></a></font><font size="-1"><span
                      lang="en-GB"><span style="background-color:
                        transparent; background-image: none;
                        background-repeat: repeat;
                        background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">.</span></span></font></p>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-family: sans-serif;"
                  align="justify" lang="en-GB"><font size="-1"><span
                      style="background-color: transparent;
                      background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat;
                      background-attachment: scroll;
                      background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size:
                      auto auto; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                      -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                      -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        name="Competition_Commission_of_India"></a>The <span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><b>Competition
                          Commission of India </b></span><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          style="font-weight: normal;">(CCI) is hearing
                          a case against </span></span><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          style="font-weight: normal;">Microsoft</span></span><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          style="font-weight: normal;"> for abusing its
                          dominant position as a market leader (</span></span><a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infotech/software/microsoft-corp-dragged-to-cci-for-abusing-dominant-position/articleshow/6574959.cms"
                        target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:
                          none;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">The
Economic



                              Times</span></i></span></a><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          style="font-style: normal;"><span
                            style="font-weight: normal;">, 27 September
                            2010).</span></span></span></span></font></p>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="justify"><font
                    style="color: rgb(102, 153, 51);" size="-1"><span
                      style="font-weight: bold;"><a
                        moz-do-not-send="true" name="EDUCATION"></a>EDUCATION</span></font><br>
                </p>
                <p style="text-align: justify;"><big><span
                      style="font-weight: bold;"><a
                        moz-do-not-send="true" name="Completion"></a></span></big><font
                    size="-1"><span style="font-family: sans-serif;"></span></font><font
                    style="font-family: sans-serif;" size="-1"
                    face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Karnataka
creates



                          State master trainers on public education
                          software tools -</span></b></span></font><font
                    style="font-family: sans-serif;" size="-1"
                    face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                        style="background-color: transparent;
                        background-image: none; background-repeat:
                        repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Following
the



                        successful Kerala model of computer aided
                        learning programmes in schools, many
                        organisations, including IT for Change, with the
                        support of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) and R.V.
                        College of Engineering (RVCE), trained
                        approximately 150 teacher educators from
                        government institutions as State Master Trainers
                        on Computer Aided Education tools (Mathematics,
                        English language and Geography). </span></span></font><font
                    size="-1"><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;"
                      href="http://itforchange.net/blog/2010/08/a-report-on-the-smt-training/"
                      target="_blank"><span style="background-color:
                        transparent; background-image: none;
                        background-repeat: repeat;
                        background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></a><a
                      moz-do-not-send="true" style="font-family:
                      sans-serif;"
                      href="http://itforchange.net/blog/2010/08/a-report-on-the-smt-training/"
                      target="_blank">Read more</a><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;"> and browse
                      through the </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;"
href="http://karnatakaeducation.org.in/misc/Master_Trainers_Training_Module.pdf"
                      target="_blank">course material</a><span
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;">.</span><br
                      style="font-family: sans-serif;">
                  </font> </p>
                <p style="text-align: justify; font-family: sans-serif;">
                </p>
                <font style="font-weight: bold;" size="-1"><a
                    moz-do-not-send="true" name="Education_institutions"></a></font><font
                  size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><b><span
                        style="background-color: transparent;
                        background-image: none; background-repeat:
                        repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Educational
institutions



                        role in digital inclusion – </span></b></span></font><font
                  size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><i><span
                        style="font-weight: normal;"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">Frontline</span></span></i></span></font><font
                  size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight:
                      normal;"><span style="background-color:
                        transparent; background-image: none;
                        background-repeat: repeat;
                        background-attachment: scroll;
                        background-position: 0% 50%;
                        -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                        -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                        -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
                        analyses the Declaration on ICTs in education by
                        anchoring it in the history of the free software
                        movement. </span></span></span></font><font
                  size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                      style="background-color: transparent;
                      background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat;
                      background-attachment: scroll;
                      background-position: 0% 50%; -moz-background-size:
                      auto auto; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                      -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                      -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></font><font
                  size="-1">(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.frontline.in/fl2722/stories/20101105272205300.htm"
                    target="_blank"><i>Frontline</i></a><span
                    style="font-style: normal;">, 23 October – 5
                    November 2010).<br>
                  </span></font><font size="-1"><span style="font-style:
                    normal;"></span></font>
                <p><br>
                </p>
                <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal;
                  text-decoration: none;" align="justify" lang="en-GB"><span
                    style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><font style="color:
                      rgb(102, 153, 51);" size="-1"><span
                        style="font-weight: bold;"><a
                          moz-do-not-send="true" name="WORKSHOPS"></a>WORKSHOPS
AND



                        CONFERENCES</span></font><span style="color:
                      rgb(102, 153, 51);"> </span></span></p>
                <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"></span>
                <div style="text-align: justify;">
                  <dl>
                    <dt><big><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></big><big><b><a
                            moz-do-not-send="true" name="KMKN"></a></b></big><font
                        style="font-family: sans-serif;" size="-1"><span
                          style="font-weight: bold;">Capacity Building
                          Workshop for Knowledge Management and
                          Knowledge Networking - </span></font><font
                        style="font-family: sans-serif;" size="-1"
                        face="Liberation Serif, serif"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span
                            style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                              style="font-weight: normal;">The UN
                              Solution Exchange – Karnataka Community
                              and Public Software Centre, IT for Change,
                              organised a Capacity Building Workshop for
                              Knowledge Management and Knowledge
                              Networking, using public software tools,
                              for organisations of the Bengaluru
                              Division of Karnataka in December 2010. A
                              similar workshop was held for Mysore
                              division organisations in January 2011. <a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="http://www.public-software.in/kmkn"
                                target="_blank">Read more</a>.</span></span></span></font><font
                        style="font-family: sans-serif;" size="-1"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"><span
                            style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                              style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></span></font></dt>
                  </dl>
                  <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;
                    font-family: sans-serif;"><font size="-1"><span
                        lang="en-GB"><span style="text-decoration:
                          none;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font
                              style="font-weight: bold;"><a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                name="Declaration"></a></font></span></span></span><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          lang="en-GB"><b><span style="background-color:
                              transparent; background-image: none;
                              background-repeat: repeat;
                              background-attachment: scroll;
                              background-position: 0% 50%;
                              -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                              -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-inline-policy:
                              -moz-initial;">The Declaration on ICTs in
                              Education </span></b></span></span><span
                        style="text-decoration: none;"><span
                          lang="en-GB"><span style="font-weight:
                            normal;"><span style="background-color:
                              transparent; background-image: none;
                              background-repeat: repeat;
                              background-attachment: scroll;
                              background-position: 0% 50%;
                              -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                              -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                              -moz-background-inline-policy:
                              -moz-initial;">urges educational
                              institutions, policy makers, students and
                              teachers to start fostering digital
                              inclusion by exclusively using FOSS tools,
                              sharing knowledge, reasserting the basic
                              rights of education and participation at
                              all levels, and asking the State for
                              quality education in ICTs and beyond. The
                              declaration was signed at the </span></span></span></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
                          background-position: 0% 50%;
                          -moz-background-size: auto auto;
                          -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial;
                          -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">National
Conference



                          on Free Software in Education in Kozhikode
                          (Kerala, 10-12 September 2010). </span></span></font><font
                      size="-1"><span lang="en-GB"><span
                          style="background-color: transparent;
                          background-image: none; background-repeat:
                          repeat; background-attachment: scroll;
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                        2010 - </span></font><font size="-1"><span
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                          Change participated in CeTIT 2010 (Citizen
                          empowerment throught information technology),
                          the second edition of the </span></span></font><font
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                          on e-governance in Chennai, Tamil Nadu). <a
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                            more</a> about Gurumurthy K's intervention
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                          Rethinking e-governance'.</span></span></font><font
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                        dissent -</span></font><font style="font-family:
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                            latest tactics for quelling outspoken
                            advocacy groups or opposition newspapers is
                            confiscating computers under the pretext of
                            searching for pirated Microsoft software.</span></span></span></span></font><font
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                      target="_blank"><i>The New York Times</i></a><span
                      style="font-style: normal;">, 11 September 2010).</span></font></p>
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                          Russian Government</span></b></span></font><font
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                        Minister Vladimir Putin has ordered government
                        agencies to be on Linux by 2015. His support is
                        critical for the success of open source software
                        within the government arena. </span></span></font><font
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                          source hardware - </font></span></span><span
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                        open source hardware enthusiasts has been
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                        open source hardware (</span></span></font><font
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                          28 August 2010). </span></span></span></font><font
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                        of the Open Source Hardware (OSHW) Draft
                        Statement of Principles and Definition has been
                        defined at the Open Hardware Summit (September
                        2010, New York)<span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></span></span></font></p>
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